Kirsty's magic unfolds in the Modern Chevron Quilt Pattern from Bonjour Quilts, featuring a scrappy twist in grass green and low volume fabrics. Say goodbye to scrap chaos as you turn them into a cozy quilt with instructions tailored for baby, throw, twin, queen, and king sizes.

Scrappy Chevron Quilt Pattern

I have a new scrappy chevron quilt pattern to show you today. This quilt might look a little familiar? Yes, it’s a version of my Modern Chevron Baby Quilt pattern! I have taken the baby quilt version and turned it into a full quilt pattern with instructions for 5 quilt sizes: This grass green and …

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Create a spooky vibe this Halloween with our twist on the Easy Disappearing Nine-Patch quilt pattern from Bonjour Quilts. Whip up a Halloween quilt pattern in no time with instructions for five different sizes, from baby to king. This one's decked out in classic Halloween shades: orange, light grey, charcoal, and black. A perfect addition to your handmade Halloween décor! Just add your own cat, as we did here.

Halloween Quilt Pattern with a Disappearing Nine-Patch

I have a finished quilt to show you today, just in time for Halloween. This Halloween quilt pattern is actually a halloweenified (real word) version of my Easy Disappearing Nine-Patch quilt pattern. (Blog post here on this pattern in alternate colours.) The Easy Disappearing Nine-Patch quilt pattern has instructions for 5 sizes – baby, throw, …

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This version of Hello Hearts! is the throw size and has been made completely with scrap fabric. It has been edge-to-edge quilted with a baptist fan quilting pattern. The Hello Hearts! quilt pattern by Bonjour Quilts is a fun modern quilt pattern. This PDF quilt pattern has instructions for 5 sizes: baby, throw, twin, queen and king. Check out the blog post on the Bonjour Quilts blog for tips on how to easily make the yardage instructions work with scraps.

Hello Hearts! Sew a Scrappy Heart Quilt Pattern

I have an adaptation to my Hello Hearts! quilt pattern for you today. In this post I’ll share how I turned it into a scrappy heart quilt pattern. It’s easy, great fun and a good way to try and keep those scraps under control. So the pattern is the throw size of my Hello Hearts! …

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Merry Xmas Mini Quilt

Just dropping in today to show off my latest pattern – the Merry Xmas Mini Quilt. I love doing a little bit of Christmas sewing mid-year. There’s no pressure as it’s not December, and it’s great to have a few projects in the can when the silly season comes around. This pattern is a fun …

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Get ready to be charmed by the Spokes mini quilt, expertly crafted by Kirsty of Bonjour Quilts. This delightful quilt boasts a cheerful color palette that's perfect for Spring. The appliqué scraps add a whimsical touch, and the quilted cross hatch design adds a modern twist. The quadrants of each Spokes block are carefully pieced with fabrics in coordinated colors, including sunny yellow, vibrant coral, lush green, and soft pink. An easy-to-sew piece of quilted wall art!

Quilted Wall Art – a Spokes Mini Quilt

I recently finished up another Spokes mini quilt in pastel Spring colours. Quilted wall art seems to be catching my eye these days! You can see my other rainbow version of this mini quilt over here. Fabric Choices This Spring version of Spokes has a slight variation in the background. I knew I wanted to …

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The Layer Cake Loop quilt pattern made in the Unruly Nature fabric line by Jen Hewett, sewn by Kirsty of Bonjour Quilts. This is a free PDF quilt pattern by the Fat Quarter Shop with instructions for throw, lap, queen and king sizes. A very quick and easy pattern to sew up. This version here is draped over one of my side tables, next to the couch.

Layer Cake Loop Quilt

Today I’m here to give a little show-and-tell about my Layer Cake Loop Quilt. This project was a collaboration with the Fat Quarter Shop, to help spread the word about this quilt. FQS provided me with a layer cake (10″ pre-cut squares) of my choice and the pattern, and then let me go for it. …

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Organic wavy line quilting lines on a Hello Hearts! quilt pattern. This is the baby size of the Hello Hearts! pattern and the wavy quilting lines contrast beautifully with the angular heart quilt blocks.

Hello Hearts! Quilt Pattern

A new quilt pattern for you today – the Hello Hearts! Quilt Pattern. This pattern is a bit of good fun and my take on the blocky 80s style of design. The Hello Hearts Quilt Pattern has instructions for 5 different quilt sizes: Hello Hearts! Quilt Pattern – baby quilt Let’s take a closer look …

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A quilted wall hanging in my kitchen. This wall hanging is made from 9 blocks each appliquéd with scrap fabrics in one colour family. The blocks are laid out in a circular colour order with a black/grey block in the centre. The wall hanging is quilted with a cross hatch quilting design and was easily stuck to my kitchen tiles with a loop of masking tape.

Scrappy Quilted Wall Hanging

I just finished my Spokes quilted wall hanging today. This is a fab way to use up all those little scraps that you hate to throw away but seem far too small to do anything useful with. The blocks remind me of the spokes of a bike, or even fireworks. Fabric Choices These blocks are …

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A modern black and white quilt pattern - a mock up of the Colour Explosion quilt pattern in black and white only. This pattern is part of a round-up of over 30 images of lovely black and white quilt patterns. Find the blog post at Bonjour Quilts.

Black and White Quilt Patterns

With all the talk about loud colour in my last post, I thought I’d try something completely different and look at black and white quilt patterns this week. It can be fun to be a contrarian sometimes, right? Black and White Together Before I delve into some quilt patterns, let’s have a chat about black …

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The Kaleidoscope quilt pattern by Bonjour Quilts in red fabrics, in honour of Viva Magenta being the 2023 Colour of the Year for Pantone. This mix of vibrant red fabrics pop against the low volume neutral fabrics.

Quilting Colour Trends for 2023

Welcome to 2023, my friends! I don’t know how 2022 treated you but I’m pretty happy it’s in the rear view mirror. Here’s hoping 2023 has some loveliness in store for us for the next 12 months. Each December various organisations and paint companies like to reveal their Colour of the Year and it’s always …

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